From b9ed43daa7a54d2ccf8666fa598f37194e9e2725 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jhb Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 13:35:30 +0000 Subject: Use the defined terms "readers" and "writers" to simplify some text. --- share/man/man9/rwlock.9 | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'share/man/man9/rwlock.9') diff --git a/share/man/man9/rwlock.9 b/share/man/man9/rwlock.9 index f7da699..45fc3bd 100644 --- a/share/man/man9/rwlock.9 +++ b/share/man/man9/rwlock.9 @@ -114,12 +114,10 @@ cannot be held while sleeping. The .Nm locks have priority propagation like mutexes, but priority -can be propagated only to an exclusive holder. -This limitation comes from the fact that shared owners +can be propagated only to writers. +This limitation comes from the fact that readers are anonymous. -Another important property is that shared holders of -.Nm -can recurse, +Another important property is that readers can always recurse, and exclusive locks can be made recursive selectively. .Ss Macros and Functions .Bl -tag -width indent -- cgit v1.1